Leadership In Public Health

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University Of Luzon Graduate School Philosophy
Of Public Health PracticeLeadership in Public
Health

• By Ahmed, Habib Ahmed Dawoud

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• LEADERSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH
• Definition of Leadership
• Comparison between Leadership and Management
• Leadership tools
• Public health Leadership Principles
• Leadership practices
• Core government public health functions
• A system approach to public health leadership and
  application of the core functions
• Real world leadership

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Leadership

• Leadership is the ability to handle people to
  inspire or influence the actions of others, to
  make decisions, and to move a group to action.
  Leaders arent born they are
  developedLeadership is not a group of
  personality traits. L Learn
  R Responsibility E
  Enthusiasm S
  Self-confidence A Attitude
  H Honesty D Direction
  I Initiative E
  Effectiveness P
  Professionalism

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Comparison between Leadership and Management
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Leadership tools

• Interpersonal communication
• Active listening
• Computer skills
• Meeting skills
• Strategic planning
• Problem Solving
• Decision making
• Reinvention

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Public Health Leadership Principles

• Improve the health of each person in the
  community
• Build coalition for public health
• Work with leaders from diverse backgrounds
• Collaborate with boards for rationale planning
• Committed to lifelong learning
• Health protection for all
• Think globally and act locally

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Leadership practices

• Knowledge synthesizer
• Creativity
• Create and inspire a shared vision
• Foster and facilitate collaboration
• Develop a learning organization
• Put innovation into practice
• Act as a colleague, A friend and humanitarian

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Core Government Public Health functions

• The responsibility of local health departments is
  to protect and promote health, and prevent
  disease and injury. Public health services are
  population based that is, services which are
  focused on improving the health status of the
  population, as opposed primary care providers who
  respond to the treatment of individuals.
• To accomplish this mission, public health
  departments balance three core government public
  health functions. These functions are essential
  to the maintenance of population-based services.

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CORE FUNCTIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH
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A system approach to public health leadership and
application of the core function
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Real world leadership

• Not all leaders are the same
• Some people should not be in leadership position
• Just because you go to a leadership institute
  doesnt mean your work place will be different
  next Monday
• Not all team members do the work
• Leaders know who they are. They live their lives
  with a leadership mindset.

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• Introduction Problems of leadership
  contribute to the difficulty of making and
  implementing policy to improve the health of the
  public. By leadership we mean the capacity of
  professionals to work effectively during long
  careers in a variety of organizations that
  command resources and favorable attention from
  elected officials and the general public.
  Effective leadership would improve the
  translation of existing knowledge about the
  prevention and control of disease into policies
  that lead to longer and healthier lives.

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• DiscussionLeadership and management are
  two sides at the same point, both are equally
  important cell sets to rank an organization to
  lead a vision and accomplish public health
  mission. Both a leader and a manager needs a plan
  and its like a map thats details and process of
  the activities the road map and a goal to
  accomplish the mission. The vision communicates
  what your organization believes are the ideal
  conditions for the community, how do you want to
  achieve your mission.

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• The vision statement encompasses the belief,
  the principles, the philosophy that governs your
  overall arching goals, activities and daily day
  task. The mission statement is the what and why.
  Developing mission statements are the next step
  in the action planning process. The mission
  statement describes what the organization is
  going to do and why is going to do that. Mission
  statements are very similar to vision statement
  however, mission statement are more concrete and
  their action oriented than vision statement. The
  vision statement is brought philosophical idea
  that covers the mission statement.

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• Once the vision statements and mission
  statements are accomplished the next step is to
  have a list of goals which are the desire outcome
  of the organization to achieving the mission
  statement. Leadership involves leading people
  to understand and to see the same vision of the
  leader and also to influence, motivate, and able
  others to contribute toward organization goals
  and mission. Management consist of controlling
  a group or set a task to accomplish a goal and is
  managing a work in a daily bases.

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